US8033011B2 - Method for mounting a thinned semiconductor wafer on a carrier substrate - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a method for III-V semiconductor wafer processing, and more particularly, relates to a method for mounting a thinned semiconductor wafer on a carrier substrate for further processing.
- the method not only prevents possible damages during the handling of thinned wafers for further processing, but also fits the conventional production line.
- the method is particularly useful for handling wafers after back-side processing, such as back-side via-hole etching and metal coating for the fabrication of semiconductor power devices, and can also be applied to the production line for other areas that requires handing of thinned wafers, such as light emitting diodes, micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), and solar cells.
- MEMS micro-electro-mechanical systems
- the state-of-the-art III-V semiconductor power devices such as pHEMT (pseudomorphic high-electron mobility transistor) devices or HBT (Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor) devices, require not only sophisticated fabrication processes on the front-side of a semiconductor wafer, but also back-side wafer processing, such as via-hole etching and metal coating.
- pHEMT pseudomorphic high-electron mobility transistor
- HBT Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor
- the wafer For back-side via-hole processing, the wafer has to be thinned to a desired thickness, which is typically less than 100 ⁇ m.
- An important step in back-side processing of GaAs wafers for power devices is the deposition of metal layer on the back-side surface and into through substrate via holes in order to meet thermal conduction requirements and provide low inductance ground connections.
- the wafers front-sides were mounted onto flat carriers. To prevent possible damages to the front-side devices, the fabricated devices must be carefully protected or passivated.
- the processing steps will be further complicated if the front-side wafer requires bumping processes. Typical bumping processes will lead to a surface topological difference of about 50-100 ⁇ m. If the front-side bumping processes were proceeded before wafer thinning for back-side processing, it becomes very difficult to protect the surface bumps of such a large topological difference when attaching the wafer front side to the carrier substrate.
- a possible approach is to perform back-side wafer processing steps prior to the surface bumping processes.
- the major technical challenge is that the wafer will become highly brittle after wafer thinning. Wafers were usually damaged, or even cracked during further processing steps for front side devices. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a method for handling thinned wafer, which can sustain further processing, such as thermal treatments and/or chemical etchings.
- the main object of the present invention is to develop a method that can handle thinned semiconductor wafers for further processing.
- the method consists of a series of steps, which is based on providing a frame with a double-side tape to mount the thinned wafer on a carrier substrate.
- the frame is used to support the double-side tape and can be designed to fit the conventional production line for holding, picking and transferring wafers.
- the carrier substrate can be a sapphire substrate, a quartz substrate or other substrates that can sustain further processing, such as thermal treatments and/or chemical etchings.
- An advantage of the present invention is that it prevents possible damages to the highly brittle chip after wafer thinning, which is particularly useful during the fabrication of many semiconductor devices, such as power devices, light emitting diodes, micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), as well as solar cells.
- semiconductor devices such as power devices, light emitting diodes, micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), as well as solar cells.
- MEMS micro-electro-mechanical systems
- Another advantage of the invented method is that it can be designed to fit the conventional production lines for processing semiconductor wafers even without using the metal frame as long as the mounting thinned wafers follow the same or a similar way.
- FIG. 1 depicts schematically the first step for thin wafer mounting of the present invention.
- FIG. 2 depicts schematically the second step for thin wafer mounting of the present invention.
- FIG. 3 depicts schematically the third step for thin wafer mounting of the present invention.
- FIG. 4 depicts schematically the final step for thin wafer mounting of the present invention.
- All the process steps for mounting a thinned wafer on a carrier substrate are based on providing a frame with a double-side tape.
- the frame can be a metal frame, or a frame made of other materials that can be used to support the double-side tape thereon.
- the metal frame can also be designed to fit the conventional production line for processing wafers. Therefore, the invented process steps are not only helpful for mounting thinned wafer on carrier substrate manually, but also beneficial for handling thinned wafer under the frame work of high-volume production lines.
- the first step of the present invention is to prepare such a frame for further processing, as illustrated in FIG. 1 .
- a metal frame 1 is first prepared, followed by attaching a first blue tape 2 on the said metal frame.
- the second step of the present invention is to attach a carrier substrate to the metal frame with a double-side tape for mounting the thinned wafer, as illustrated in FIG. 2 .
- a double-side tape 3 is laid on the first blue tape 2 that has been attached to the metal frame 1 .
- the front cover film 30 of the double-side tape 3 is then torn off, followed by attaching the carrier substrate 4 onto the double-side tape.
- the carrier substrate 4 could be a sapphire substrate, a quartz substrate or other substrates that can firmly hold a thinned wafer and sustain further processing, such as thermal treatments and/or chemical etchings.
- the third step of the present invention is to flip the carrier substrate 4 with the double-side tape 3 on the top, in order to facilitate mounting a thinned wafer thereon, as shown in FIG. 3 .
- the carrier substrate 4 along with both the double-side tape 3 and the first blue tapes 2 is first detached from the metal frame 1 .
- the exterior portion 20 of blue tape may be cut away from the carrier substrate 4 .
- a second blue tape 5 is laid on the metal frame 1 .
- the sapphire substrate with both the double-side tape 3 and the first blue tapes 2 is then flipped upside-down and reattached to the metal frame 1 .
- the first blue tape 2 together with the rear cover film 32 of the double-side tape 3 is removed, leaving behind a carrier substrate 4 with the double-side tape 3 thereon ready for mounting a thinned wafer 6 .
- the final step is to mount the thinned wafer 6 to the carrier substrate 4 , as shown in FIG. 4 .
- the thinned wafer 6 is mounted firmly onto the carrier substrate 4 via the double-side tape thereon.
- the thinned wafer mounted on the carrier substrate can now be detached from the metal frame for further processing.
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